Honestly, I don't remember much about any collectibles. I beat it shortly after it came out. I remember the story, a lot of climbing, and the action sequences since they stand out because they're so few and far between.
I think I can replay UC2 and even 3 more often because of the good combination of exploration, collectibles, and combat. I'm more of an action-oriented person, myself, but it really all depends on what you want out of a game. I'm not a multiplayer person so I always appreciate any SP experience that offers plenty of replay value.
I definitely replayed UC2 more than 4, but that's because I tend to replay stuff to experience my favorite parts again, not for collectibles and such. 2 really was the pinnacle of the series; 3 tries to top it (which of course is what a sequel tries to do), but it always tried to go bigger rather than better. One of the best set pieces in 2 wasn't a collapsing building; it was the tense cat and mouse battle with the tank. 4 improved over 3 by not trying to follow in 2's footsteps so much and not being afraid to slow down
Slowed down too much. It's like one step forward, two steps back. But it is one of the few games where the story kept me going or I probably would have given up about half way through. I loved the setting, too. Good movie.
I'll never understand the hype with the first game. The ending chapters were terrible.
Yeah, that's when it went off the rails for me, not that I was taking the game all that seriously, but that element seemed weird. It was like they were trying to do something supernatural like Indiana Jones, but kinda missing the point of what made suspension of disbelief in (most of) those films... kinda believable.
Lmao, so I guess I was supposed to be in awe of those cliffs that I scaled for nearly half the game, no wonder it didn't work for me.
Just look at the magnitude of what we're looking at here, truly sensational. Why not also mention the insane degree of player control in this screenshot, so many branching paths! It's at a moment like this that you stop and ask yourself...where am I going to go next?
We're in an era when ND games aren't the only games that are visually pleasing or even the top of the industry, and where other games are much more engaging to play. If the only thing that's supposed to make climbing less braindead is
then no.....i'm good fam. Especially because we've seen so much of this stuff before and it's not more engaging in this game.
But RE4 is the best TPS.
That guy wasn't even cherry picking. The climbing simply isn't engaging and we spend more time than any other game in the series climbing, and it's even more immersion breaking here considering instead of doing what they did before with some exposed bricks and less obvious climbable geometry with subtle uses of yellow in cities to direct the player and such they went with the TR school of convenient white paint on random rock faces... And doing a cursory playthrough of all three UC games a couple weeks ago, they've actually made it more magnetic in 4. And not just that, but the other boring stuff is used to absurd degrees, i'm talking pushing crates that in various places of the world, always helping npcs up, rope swinging because instead of vines or old ropes we now carry a rope, etc. what's actually fun about these? Downtime can be engaging, exploring the village in UC2 is more engaging than literally every downtime moment in UC4.
So I shouldn't expect the final entry to be the best entry in terms of pacing, story structure, etc.?
Please youngling, he knows Uncharted more than you.
Uncharted 2 tells a better story while also making really good use of downtime and the quieter moments to characterize the characters. What conversations during the "exploration" of UC4 do you actually remember that elevates it above other games exactly or even lets us learn something pertinent about the characters?
Then why not just make a movie? It would cost less for me enjoy, too. I have nothing against storytelling in games but I'd rather have excellent gameplay and a shit story than an amazing story and boring gameplay. Ideally, we all want the best of everything. In UC4's case, blending in more action would have been welcome, making it a bit more exciting in my opinion.
This pretty much sums up what I expect from the series. And for the most part, each game up to 4 was like that.
Oh. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the story itself, characters, and performances. I'm also easy to please. I wasn't thinking about it in terms of the series storlyine as a whole. You're probably right about the retcon and superhero stuff. I guess series' fans could be bitter.
Yeah, this seems to be a thing and I can't say I'm a fan. If I'm just going to walk from one cut scene to another in a linear game, make the entire sequence a cut scene or just make a movie. With that said, that and this game are two reasons as to why I'm hesitant to play TLoU. It gets a lot of praise but I rarely here anybody talking about the gameplay. I hear more people talking about the story and characters, which is fine, but I really hope it's not paced like this. I really hope there's a reason for me to return to the single player. I know there is gameplay, I've seen videos. I'm also not a fan of zombies, or whatever they are in TLoU, so that's another reason I haven't jumped on it yet.
Hmm. I really enjoyed Crash Warped. Maybe the next time I see TLoU, I'll pick it up. I often find it for cheap anyway.
It's also very gamey to have
First couple hours of the game are like UC4 where they just don't let go of your hand but after that it's quite good.
This is a good point. Nobody ever seems to point any of these things out. And that applies to any games like this. Actually, this further emphasizes the fact that games that are meant to be played. If a game isn't "gamey", it might just be terrible. If anything, the bolded can really break immersion if you think about it too much.
